High incidence of drownings this year

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To me it seems as if there is a a lot more idiots around than there used to be.

In general the zeitgeist is a lot more stressing than it used to be.

If people can just let evolution, Murphy, and the waterways work together the Idiot Quotient will naturally level off. Nature has given us a system that allows idiots perishing before breeding tending not to multiply quite so fast as OSH might wish.
We'll just have to look for potential politicians elsewhere, e.g., under rocks.

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We seem to have gone off topic here , from roads to swimming!

Dunno about your neck of the woods, but 'round here swimming is the most practical way for non-vehicle road users to use pedestrian crossings.